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January 2025

January 01, 2025

Your Predictions for 2025

[A free post so everyone can play.] What do you think will happen–or might happen–in...

December 2024

December 31, 2024

Checking Our Predictions for 2024

[Free post] Checking readers' predictions for 2024 and bestowing the coveted Gluten Free Award for...

December 30, 2024

End of the Year Miscellany, 12/30/24

The most popular Bible verses of 2024. The decline in church attendance has stopped. And...

December 27, 2024

Words of the Year 2024

English Dictionaries have the custom of proclaiming a "word of the year," new words or...

December 27, 2024

DISCUSS: Optimistic or Pessimistic?

Considering Donald Trump's second term, the economy, trends, or other factors on your mind, are...

December 26, 2024

Year in Review 2024

Looking back on the news, religion, and media of 2024.

December 26, 2024

Be Thinking About Your Predictions

[A free post.] To celebrate the New Year, we will look back on 2024 and...

December 25, 2024

Immanuel

Christmas is about the coming of "Immanuel." God is with us! My Christmas card to...

December 25, 2024

My Christmas Presents to You, 2024

Merry Christmas! A custom of this blog has been to give Christmas presents to my...

December 24, 2024

Why Christmas Is at the Beginning of Winter

There is good reason why we celebrate Christmas when we do, near the Winter Solstice,...

December 23, 2024

The Christmas Music That Is Advent Music

Much of our Christmas music, both sacred and secular, is actually Advent music, expressing a...

December 20, 2024

The Vibe Shift

Social observers and trend-trackers are sensing a new cultural "vibe" ("the mood of a place, situation, person, etc. and...

December 20, 2024

DISCUSS: Christmas

This is the place to share your thoughts, feelings, concerns, memories, and anything else you'd...

December 19, 2024

Pardons without Crimes?

President Biden, having extended clemency to over 1,500 offenders, is now, out of fear of...

December 18, 2024

“They Will Say, ‘Blessed Are the Barren'”

Jesus gives a number of signs that signify that the End Times. One of them...

December 17, 2024

Are Right-Wing Conservatives “Woke”?

Conservatives have long criticized left-wing progressives for being "woke," a term social justice activists use...

December 16, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 12/16/24

Bad times for dictators. Hallucinating the news. And the UK completely bans puberty blockers for...

December 13, 2024

John the Baptist on Vocation

Advent does quite a bit with John the Baptist, the prophet who prepared the way...

December 13, 2024

DISCUSS: Health Insurance

The killer of the health insurance CEO has been turned into a folk hero on...

December 12, 2024

Light of Light

An Advent custom is contemplating Christ as the light of the world. We know much...

December 11, 2024

The End of the “American Century”?

After World War II, the United States of America dominated the world, spreading its democracy,...

December 10, 2024

Wars and Rumors of War

The "wars and rumors of wars" that Jesus said would be a sign of the...

December 09, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 12/9/24

Our national debt in light years. Google's woes. And Bible sales are up 22%.

December 06, 2024

Luther on Christ’s Return

Advent is the appointed time to contemplate Christ's return. But we need to be careful...

December 06, 2024

DISCUSS: What’s Good on TV?

Continuing our series of non-political, non-adversarial discussion topics, what's good on TV? What is something...

December 05, 2024

Eisenhower on the Vocation of Staffer

General and President Dwight Eisenhower laid out some principles for the vocation of staff member....

December 04, 2024

Presidential Pardons vs. God’s Pardons

What if, instead of writing out a pardon that frees Hunter from the consequences of...

December 03, 2024

He Came, He Comes, He Will Come

Advent celebrates Christ's coming, which happened in the past in Bethlehem, will happen in the...

December 02, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 12/2/24

The unintended consequences of deportation. A 40-cent bitcoin is now worth nearly $100,000. And Australia...

November 2024

November 29, 2024

Report on Classical Education

One of the few fronts in the culture wars that Christians are winning is in...